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When last week, Oklahoma threatened to impeach Obama over the administration's recommendations on accommodating transgender students, saying the president overstepped his constitutional authority, few paid much attention. After all, it is safe to say there have been far more egregious violations of the constitution by this administration, for it to be too worried about allowing transsexuals to use any bathroom they choose.

However, now that ten other states joined Oklahoma overnight in suing Obama, it may be time to pay attention.

As sworn deposition of Hillary Clinton's closest aides gets underway in the civil suit brought by Judicial Watch, an interesting motion has been filed by the legal team of Cheryl Mills, a former top Clinton aide.

Police in Chicago have resorted to using a new Big Brother-style “pre-crime” computer that tells them who they should arrest, based on an algorithm that does all the work for them.  The Chicago Police Department are using a new algorithm to determine which members of the public should be “targeted” – eliminating the old fashioned need for detective work and evidence. Zerohedge.com reports: Each individual on the list is provided a score based on arrests, shootings, affiliations with gangs, and other variables.

A student in Virginia was handcuffed and charged with stealing a 65-cent carton of milk, which he already had the right to take as he was on the school’s free lunch program. Police have charged the teen with larceny charges anyway, because he had allegedly “concealed” the milk. RT reports: After the May 10 incident, the student named Ryan was also suspended from Graham Park Middle School in Triangle, Virginia. That day Ryan, who is entitled to the school’s free lunch program, went back to the lunch line to get his milk, according to his mother Shamise Turk.

While the US coal industry has had its share of bad news in the past year, following extensive plant shutdowns and numerous bankruptcies including that of the largest US coal producer Peabody Energy, there was some even more tragic news last night when as AP reported, West Virginia State Police say longtime coal company executive and recent Patriot Coal CEO Bennett K. Hatfield has been murdered.

Last night, the local press reported that Hatfield, 59, was shot to death Monday at Mountain View Memory Gardens, a cemetery in southern West Virginia's Mingo County.